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Professor Tomas Ryan

Professor In (Biochemistry)
Professor In (Trinity Inst. of Neurosciences (TCIN))
      
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Professor Tomas Ryan

Professor In (Biochemistry)

 tryan6@tcd.ie

 

Professor In (Trinity Inst. of Neurosciences (TCIN))


  ENGRAM   Evolution   MEMORY
Details Date
Reviewing Editor, eLife 2024 - Present
Co-Organizer (with Prof. Timothy O'Leary (University of Cambridge), Prof. Tobias Hauser (Universiy College London), and Dr. Carolina Rezaval (University of Birmingham) of FENS Special Interest Event SiE04 - Strength through cohesion: protecting European neuroscience in a turbulent world, FENS Forum 2022, Paris, France. https://forum2022.fensforum.org/event/sie4-strength-through-cohesion-protecting-european-neuroscience-in-a-turbulent-world-1215-1315/ July 2022
Speaker, Brain Innovation Days, Fast-tracking brain innovation in times of COVID-19, European Brain Council event, Brussels and online. https://live.eventtia.com/en/brain April 2021
Organizer of FENS Special Interest Event SiE15: Research Funding in Europe Post-COVID-19, FENS Virtual Forum 2020. July 2020
International Member of the US Society for Neuroscience (SFN)'s Government and Public Affairs Committee https://www.sfn.org/about/volunteer/committees/government-and-public-affairs-committee September 2024 - October 2026
Co-Editor (with Prof. Charan Ranganath, UC Davis) of Learning and Memory Section of 6th Edition of The Cognitive Neurosciences textbook (MIT Press, USA), published in 2020 https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043250/the-cognitive-neurosciences/ May 2017 - September 2019
Member of the FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) Program Committee, FENS Forum 2024, Vienna, Austria. 2022 - 2024
Past-Chair, FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence, European Union. December 2021 - September 2023
Chair, FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence, Europe Union. August 2019 - December 2021
Secretary, Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, USA. January 2023 - September 2023
President, Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, USA. October 2024 - September 2025
President Elect, Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, USA. October 2023 - September 2024
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Details Date From Date To
Society for Neuroscience, USA October 2006 Present
Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (MCCS), USA October 2006 Present
Neuroscience Ireland January 2018 Present
FENS-Kavli Alumni September 2023 Present
FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and Kavli Foundation) September 2018 August 2023
Eastern Psychological Association (EPA), USA February 2011 March 2016
British Neuroscience Association (BNA), UK December 2005 September 2009
Chapman DP, Sarah Power, Stefano Vicini, Ryan TJ, Burns MP, Amnesia after Repeated Head Impact Is Caused by Impaired Synaptic Plasticity in the Memory Engram., Journal of Neuroscience, 2024, pe1560232024 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
O'Sullivan FM, Ryan TJ, If Engrams Are the Answer, What Is the Question?, Engrams: A Window into the Memory Trace, 2024, p273-302 , Notes: [Part of the book series: Advances in Neurobiology ((NEUROBIOL,volume 38))], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Clara Ortega-de San Luis, Maurizio Pezzoli, Esteban Urrieta, Tomás J. Ryan, Engram cell connectivity as a mechanism for information encoding and memory function, Current Biology, 33, (24), 2023, p5368-5380.e5 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Sarah D. Power, Erika Stewart, Louisa G. Zielke, Eric P. Byrne, Aaron Douglas, Clara Ortega-de San Luis, Lydia Lynch, Tomás J. Ryan, Immune activation state modulates infant engram expression across development, Science Advances, 9, (45), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Autore L, O'Leary JD, Ortega-de San Luis C, Ryan TJ, Adaptive expression of engrams by retroactive interference., Cell Reports, 42, (8), 2023, p112999 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
James D. O'Leary, Rasmus Bruckner, Livia Autore, Tomás Ryan, Natural forgetting is modulated by experience, eLife, 2023, Notes: [Original eLife rating of 'important' and 'solid' has been upgraded after peer review and revision to 'important' and 'convincing'. https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/92860], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Ryan TJ, Frankland PW, Forgetting as a form of adaptive engram cell plasticity., Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Ortega-de San Luis C, Ryan TJ, Understanding the physical basis of memory: Molecular mechanisms of the engram., Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
O'Leary T, Hauser TU, Ryan TJ, Rezaval C, FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence: Science needs strong European cohesion., European journal of neuroscience, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Donato F, Ryan TJ, Framing the future of neuroscience in a time of great upheaval: Introducing a series of essays by the scholars of the FENS-Kavli network., European Journal of Neuroscience, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Joaquin Matias Alfei Palloni, Ralph R. Miller, Tomás Ryan, and Gonzalo P. Urcelay, Rethinking Memory Impairments: Retrieval Failure, PsyArXiv Preprints, 2024, phttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.i , Notes: [https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zjxvu], Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Elected to Fellowship, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland May 2022
Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), USA March 2022 - November 2024
Lister Institute Research Prize, Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine, UK September 2021
CIFAR-Azrieli Global Scholar, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Canada May 2021 - April 2024
FENS-Kavli Scholar, FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence, European Union September 2018 - August 2023
Early Career Researcher of the Year Award, Science Foundation Ireland, Ireland October 2018
European Research Council (ERC) Staring Grant, European Union February 2017 - January 2023
President of Ireland Young Researcher Award (PIYRA), Science Foundation Ireland, Ireland December 2016 - November 2022
Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship January 2017 - January 2020
Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA), National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia (declined) January 2017
Junior Research Fellowship, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK September 2009 - September 2010
Wellcome Trust PhD Studentship (4 years) October 2005 - September 2009